Mexico City yesterday became the first Latin American city to legislatively approve same-sex marriage. (A court decision in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November had approved same-sex marriages, but the issue is tied up in further litigation.) CNN and AP report that the city's legislative assembly approved the change by a vote of 39-20, with 5 abstentions. In a second vote of 31-24, with 9 abstentions, the assembly approved legalizing adoptions by same-sex couples. Mayor Marcelo Ebrard is expected to sign the law. The Roman Catholic Church which is the dominant religion in Mexico opposes the change. 91% of Mexico's population is Catholic. (Background.) The city had approved same-sex civil unions in 2007.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Just one more corruption to add to Mexico's long list.
Yay for Mexico!
-American Atheist
Another reason not to visit Mexico!
Why shouldn't a Mexican couple make a civil contract pledging their mutual love? The Wedding Certificate doesn't say anything about God or religion. Even atheists can marry now.
The mexican so-called "couple" are not a couple at all, but homosexuals. That is why they are not entitled to marriage or anything like marriage. In due time this error will be corrected.
There is no religion clause to commit immoral sins and crimes.
A gay couple is still a couple. "Couple" means "two." Period.
And "entitlement" to marriage is up to individual states and provinces in various countries. Several religions have absolutely no objections to gay marriage; it is neither a "sin" nor a crime; and more and more countries around the world are becoming accepting and inclusive -- including the good ol' USA. You don't have to like it, but you better learn to put up with it, because it is a fact of life.
You should only be able to object if someone is forcing you into a same-sex union you don't want. Otherwise, stop trying to interfere in other peoples' lives.
Jesus Anon, you're a hateful moron!
-American Atheist
AA --anon isn't a hateful moron --just true to God's Word. Actually, homosexuals are entitled to marriage --having the same rights we have --but marriage to persons of the opposite sex. They would not be homosexuals if something had not gone whacky between the ears --same as with pedophiles and others with abnormal sexual appetites.
Lady J --if the USA finally legalizes marriage throughout the nation, mark my words, we will be in the same place as Sodom and Gommorrah and ultimately be destroyed. I suspect this will be a final desolation before Christ's return.
Sinners have God's compassion, but we are to repent to have His salvation --and turn from our sins.
You're going to be destroyed, anyway. Why not treat your fellow human beings like fellow human beings while you wait?
When it comes to marriage, homosexuals want the same rights to their own choices that heterosexuals have -- to be allowed to marry whom they love. Not whom you say they need to love.
Limiting choices for others because they are not choices you would make for yourself is hateful.
So you think I'm hateful. No surprise.
But there is no necessity to marry whom we emotionally love as dear close friends--no necessity to be sexual with such.
Love doesn't require sexual union. Our choices of whom we love sexually are rightly limited to our own hetero-spouses --with whom we might possibly bless the world and each other with children whom we raise and educate and civilize at our own expense of time, patience, commitment and money.
What men have for men is lust, not love, because love desires the highest good for the other. The emotional craving between people of the same sex stems from parenting issues --or idolatry of people we envy and desire for ourselves for our own self-esteem. Sodomy is not in anyone's best interests --but dangerous, risky, usually a promiscuous practice which gives the world and themselves no children.
Entering into homosexual activities deprives the opposite sex of potential spouses, too.
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